2Revolutions
Project Title
For a project to test a scalable and cost-effective approach to curriculum-based professional learning
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
2Revolutions is a national education design lab that builds capacity to transform toward more equitable, learner-centered schools and systems. They draw on their broad experience with school, district, community, state, and higher education partners to design solutions rooted in local needs.This grant supports a newly launched project that seeks to transform K-12 professional learning by enabling efficient access to high-quality professional learning experiences that are modular and interoperable, competency-aligned, credential- and credit-bearing, with evidence of effectiveness. The grant will support two proof of concept pilots involving Teaching Lab and OpenSciEd building on their approaches to curriculum-based professional learning.
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Project Title
For continued collaborative design work to foster innovation in Virginia Beach City Public Schools
Date
Dec. 05, 2019
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 2008, 2Revolutions is a national education design lab that works with school, districts, communities and states to help build capacity to transform their learning models. They work with adults across the education system(s) to encourage them to think differently about the purpose and structure of education – i.e., to consider what students need to know and be able to do to be successful in the future, and then to support them in the process of designing, testing and refining new approaches that are more likely to produce the outcomes they seek. 2Revolutions seeks to continue work with Virginia Beach City Public Schools to build educator capacity for innovation and to pilot approaches to building equitable access to opportunity and shifting adult mindsets. This continues efforts launched as part of the Corporation’s Integration Design Consortium.
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For a project to build the capacity of district, community and school-level stakeholders in one place to work in an integrated way to design and launch new learning models to solve local education challenges (as one of the five projects in the Corporation
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
27 months
Description
While many stakeholders increasingly recognize the need to develop more innovative learning models and systems that prepare students with the full breadth of knowledge, skills and dispositions they will need to be successful, educators and communities often lack the capacity and readiness to engage in the complex work of transforming schools and systems. Fragmentation – in the form of the lack of a common vision or language, misaligned incentives, and the challenges of complex systems in flux – makes this work even more difficult. Founded in 2008, 2Revolutions is a national education design lab that supports schools, districts and states in envisioning the ‘future of learning’ that they want for their students, and then helping them rapidly design and test approaches to high-priority problems that catalyze the transformation of policy and practice towards that vision. With the support of this grant, 2Revolutions will support one community through this process, with a focus on working within an ‘integrative frame’ that incentivizes integrative behaviors, reduces transaction costs, and democratizes the problem.